Thomas Sowell Quotes

The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality.

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• I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Great
  • Book

• I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Live
  • Write

• No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Lucky
  • Really
  • Superhero

• Reverence is fatal to literature.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Literature
  • Reverence
  • Fatal

• Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Body
  • Flower
  • Guarantee

• Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • Constitution
  • Most
  • Faults

• I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • People
  • Life
  • Money

• I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Age
  • Know
  • Understand

• I haven't chosen any party yet because people choose parties when they get older. When it's time, I'll look, and if I can't find one to join, I'll make another party.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • Time
  • Party

• I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Time
  • Water
  • Cold

• We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Human
  • Birth
  • Human Beings

• My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Hand

• As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Great
  • Children
  • Hope

• Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Small
  • Action
  • Step

• Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.

  

  Mae West
  • Long
  • Man
  • Find

• If I have a tombstone when it's all over, it will say, 'He tried to connect.'

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Say
  • Will
  • Over

• I do believe, whenever this is all said and done, we won't talk about Mickey Gall, the guy that beat CM Punk; we'll just talk about Mickey Gall, the guy who is a top 10 fighter, a good welterweight or maybe a great welterweight.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Good
  • Great
  • Believe

• I have a notebook that is filled to the brim with my dreams and ideas and goals and aspirations.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Ideas
  • Goals
  • Dreams

• Men are virtuous because the women are; women are virtuous from necessity.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Men
  • Women

• 'All stories are true,' Skarpi said. 'But this one really happened, if that’s what you mean.' He took another slow drink, then smiled again, his bright eyes dancing. 'More or less. You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.'

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Truth
  • True
  • Eyes

• Tinashe doing 'I Wanna Get Better' - it's a really personal song, and it was hard for me to imagine anyone else doing it, but stylistically her and I are so incredibly different that I was fascinated to hear what she'd do with it, and I completely loved it. It just felt like the different expression of a song that, to me, was so stamped in one way.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Different
  • She
  • Song

• The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • Reality
  • Ability